Hi All,
Some of you may have noticed a commit that added something called "Dwarf
Accelerator Tables". The commit had a few of the salient points, but I
thought I'd elaborate here and talk about what's going on with that.
Basically we've got the pubnames and pubtypes sections in dwarf that
aren't particularly useful for debuggers. The code I just committed adds
some new tables that allow better indexing for debuggers. LLDB is already
equipped to deal with these tables in current ToT.
Going forward I'll be committing a few patches to fix issues as they come up
and fixing up the type section information. Also coming tomorrow will be a
longer spec with more detail and test cases are definitely forthcoming. We do
plan to submit this for standardization with the dwarf community and welcome any
feedback.
Thanks!
-eric
